2010 Event Bolivian President Alvaro Garcia Linera prompts bus drivers to strike after announcing an 83% increase in the price of gasoline and a 73% increase in the price of diesel fuel 1974 Event Dutch rations gasoline 1945 Event U.S. wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends 1942 Event Gasoline rationed in US 1942 Event Gasoline rationing using coupons begins 1942 Event Gasoline 1st rationed in U.S. (17 Eastern States) 1941 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan 1936 Event Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey 1923 Event Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio 1921 Birthday Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep 1919 Event "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune 1919 Event Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon) 1913 Event 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts) 1885 Event 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft. Wayne, Ind) 1883 Birthday Frank O King, Cashton Wisconsin, cartoonist, Gasoline Alley 1872 Event George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
